Have We Had Enough Yet?
The ‘fake news’ media have learned nothing; it’s time for us to teach them.
So the Wall Street Journal enlists a tech CEO who got rich helping his clients import cheap Chinese toys to tell their readers that the Trump tariffs on Beijing will be an “extinction-level, asteroid-wiping-out-the-dinosaurs kind of event.”1 Really.
The Journal—when it’s not on its daily crusade to destroy Elon Musk—seems obsessed over gaslighting the country on President Donald Trump’s economic policy. And why not? The paper just won a Pulitzer Prize for attacking Musk.2
If there were ever a more insular group of elites talking to themselves, I haven’t seen it. Consider this breathless mid-April headline celebrating the impending stock market collapse. Just one problem, the Dow went on to regain nearly all the losses and April’s 177,000 jobs figure far surpassed economists’ expectations3
At least—unless you count the blood and treasure spent on the next foreign war hyped by the paper’s editorials—we’re not paying for the front page hacks at the Journal. So Hallelujah for President Trump’s ‘26 Budget that finally eliminates $535 million in taxpayer funding for the anachronistic and shameless bias at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (NPR, PBS).4
Yet for anyone who watched Trump’s media blitz last week, the disgraceful dissembling by the rest of those asking the questions continues unabated. When queried about whether illegal immigrants are entitled to all the procedural protections due a U.S. citizen, the President’s response of “I don’t know” was quickly turned into headlines of Trump wavering on whether to “uphold the Constitution.”5
Really. These people are despicable.
After all the media lies about Biden’s health, Hunter’s laptop, Russian collusion, Ukraine, Covid, Kavanaugh, Sandmann, Rittenhouse, immigration and so-called ‘threats to democracy’ that never materialized save for their own censorship campaign, you’d think a few newsrooms might have learned a lesson.
Instead—and despite a dwindling marketshare due in part to conspicuous viewer distrust—journalists are doubling down on failure.6 So much so that the White House was forced to release another tally of outright media falsehoods over the first 100 days of the second Trump administration.7
Call it the ‘Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.’